I have a spare viv and I am thinking about using it as a big incubator, just was wondering if it would work.

It's a 3x2x2 wooden viv, with 2 vents and glass sliding doors. I would be using a Pulse proportionate thermostat and ceramic heating and misting every day to keep the humidity up..

What do you's think?

Bryan

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> 3x2x2 wooden viv, with 2 vents and glass sliding
> doors. using a Pulse proportionate thermostat and
> ceramic heating

The viv should be OK. If the back is hardboard instead of contiboard you could line it with polystyrene sheet and possibly tinfoil. Can you use a large heatmat instead of the ceramic? I think ceramics tend to be fairly directional, whereas a 35"heatmat against the back wall would give a constant heat across the viv. I've never used a ceramic for an incubator so I don't know how it will work.

> misting every day

You might find it better to control the humidity inside the eggboxes rather than in the viv
1. Difficult to keep the humidity up in a viv
2. a contiboard viv might be ruined by humidity that high for that long.
I used cadbury boxes with a few holes in the lid, and a deep layer of damp vermiculite.

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It will be hard to keep an incubator this size but never the less it is quite possible


Phil

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